Hello everyone. This is my first post, and you're going to have to forgive my nomenclature as I don't know all the perfect home theater jargon... yet! I have a 1050, and I've been having a sound dropping out problem that is not related to the known issue with the 6.1 feature on this system. Basically, its as follows: After the system has been on for some time, you'll hear a crisp "chip" sound from the speakers and at the same time the speakers will go dead. Occasionally after about ten seconds they will come back on themselves, but normally I have to either switch the input mode or turn the system off and on. This works for a minute or two, but then they go dead again. It happens in every input mode, from sat to DVD. Recently when this happened, I switched the surround mode instead of turning the system off, and the sound came back but was very garbled and full of static. I have the system very well ventilated and right now I only have two front speakers hooked up. They're both rated 8 ohm and the deck is set to 8 ohm impedence. I made sure no speaker wires were touching. I unhooked everything and just ran my DVD player through with analog connections, but still after about an hour the same problem occurred. I did run this by Outlaw and they've made many suggestions, but I thought I might run this by the group and see if someone out there by chance has had a similar problem with an Outlaw OR any other deck, and if its something basic I'm not doing right.
Thank you, James

I'm sure you checked this or it was suggested but I will say it anyway...

When looking at the display on the 1050 are you seeing more than your two front speakers showing as being "on"? My only guess is that you have the 5, 5.1 or 6.1 configured and when nothing is being sent to your two speakers the sound is "dropping out", but in reality is be sent to missing speakers.

Make sense? If you have already tried that... don't have another bit of advice at the moment.

Larry

Hey Larry, thanks for the idea. I actually have it set to plain old stereo, but that was a great thought as I never would have thought of it.